Alibaba wary of head-to-head clash with Amazon

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Alibaba executive vice chairman Joseph Tsai highlighted the language barrier for Chinese companies.

DEBBY WU, Nikkei staff writer

HONG KONG -- Alibaba Group Holding and its bigger U.S. rival Amazon.com are not currently seeking to make inroads into each other's top markets, a senior executive at the Chinese e-commerce company said Thursday.

"Right now we are trying to steer clear of each other's swimming lanes," Joseph Tsai, Alibaba's executive vice chairman, told participants at a business conference in Hong Kong.

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